Transposon (7270 bytes)
1: ...d then back to DNA by [[reverse transcriptase]]. Transposons are very useful to researchers as a means to alt...
3: ==Types of transposons==
4: Transposons are classified into two classes based on their m...
6: ===Class I: Retrotransposons===
7: :''See main article on [[Retrotransposon]]s''

Inverted repeat (347 bytes)
1: ...--3'. Inverted repeats define the boundaries in [[transposon]]s. Also compare with [[direct repeat]]s.

Transposase (331 bytes)
1: ...endcode a transposase which allows them to enable transposons to be cut from genomic DNA and be inserted at an...

1940 in science (1322 bytes)
15: * [[February 2]] - The first [[transposon]]s are discovered in [[maize]] (''Zea mays'', aka...

Selfish DNA (1378 bytes)
4: *[[Transposon]]s copy themselves to different [[locus|loci]] in...

Barbara McClintock (1685 bytes)
2: ...American [[genetics|geneticist]] who discovered [[transposon]]s while seeking to explain the coloring patterns...

Microsatellite (1672 bytes)
12: ... also:'' [[minisatellite]], [[mobile element]], [[transposon]], [[short interspersed repetitive element]], [[l...

List of evolutionary biology topics (2840 bytes)
65: [[timeline of evolution]] - [[trait]] - [[transposon]]

Genetically modified organism (8610 bytes)
25: ...ransposon]]s and a source of [[transposase]]. The transposon, which can include new genes, is then integrated ...

Retrotransposon (4440 bytes)
1: ...] up to 90%, of the [[genome]] is made up of retrotransposons.
4: ...inserting near or within genes. Furthermore, retrotransposon induced [[mutations]] are relatively stable; beca...
6: ...and their plant hosts. The understanding how retrotransposons and their hosts’ genomes have co-evolved m...
8: ==Types of retrotransposons==
9: ...e long terminal repeat (LTR) and the non-LTR retrotransposons.

Messenger RNA (5177 bytes)
23: ...defense mechanism against [[retrotransposon]]s ([[transposon]]s that use dsRNA as an intermediate state) or vi...

Timeline of scientific experiments (4698 bytes)
36: ...ants for color, which leads to the discovery of [[transposon|jumping genes]]

Plant breeding (9217 bytes)
26: ... [[Dimethyl sulfoxide|DMSO]], [[radiation]] and [[transposon]]s are used to generate mutants with desirable tr...

List of famous experiments (7590 bytes)
18: ...ants for color, which leads to the discovery of [[Transposon|jumping genes]] ([[1944]])

Botany (11720 bytes)
23: ...re recently, [[Barbara McClintock]] discovered '[[transposon|jumping genes]]' by studying [[maize]]. Although ...

List of molecular biology topics (10731 bytes)
62: ...ion]] - [[translocation]] - [[transposition]] - [[transposon]] - [[transversion]] - [[triplet]] - [[trisomy]] ...

Maize (11120 bytes)
77: ...siology or Medicine|Medicine]] for discovery of [[transposon]]s while studying maize.

Virus (15570 bytes)
71: ...rom transferrable elements like [[plasmid]]s or [[transposon]]s. It has also been suggested that they may rep...

Genetic algorithm (18453 bytes)
40: ... movement of genes, in the manner of [[transposon|transposons]]. These movements change the schema of the chro...

1940 (19714 bytes)
18: * [[February 2]] - The first [[transposon]]s are discovered in [[maize]] (''Zea mays'', aka...

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